OR THE JOURNALS OF THE REV. EZRA STILES ELY, D. D. WRITTEN WHILE HE WAS STATED PREACHER TO THE HOSPITAL AND VOL. I. SIXTH EDITION-REVISED BY THE AUTHOR. PHILADELPHIA: SAMUEL F. BRADFORD. JESPER HARDING, PRINTER. SEAL. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-eighth day of January, in the fifty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1829, the REV. EZRA STILES ELY, D. D. of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "Visits of Mercy; or the Journals of the Rev. Ezra Stiles Ely, D. D. Written while he was stated preacher to the hospital and alms-house, in the city of New York." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intituled, "An act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. AIR RECOMMENDATIONS. By the Rev. Alexander Waugh, D. D. minister of the Scots' church, Well street, Mary-le-bone; and the Rev. George Collison, minister of the Independent church, Walthamstow. “A man is doing honour to his own heart in recommending to the public notice the following Journal,' very appropriately entitled 'Visits of Mercy.' The excellent author seems to have drunk deep at the spirit of Him, whose bosom was the dwelling place of pity, and who went about doing good. What a blessing to the workhouses, the hospitals, and other receptacles of poverty and disease, especially in great cities, were men of his ability, discernment, and tenderness of heart, the persons appointed to perform in them the duties of the christian ministry! "In every page of the work, we recognise the man of feeling;' but it is the feeling of the renewed heart, enlarged as is the range of human wretchedness, purified by the indwelling Spirit of God, and ennobled by the model on which it is formed. We assure ourselves of the thanks of every humane and pious mind, in respectfully introducing a work so happily fitted to soften, to cleanse, and to exalt the heart of man, and give energy to the best affections of our nature. ALEXANDER WAUGH. 5999 .324 (RECAP) FEB-31908 222968 By Benjamin Rush, M. D. The late Dr. Benjamin Rush, in a letter to Dr. David Hosack, dated, Philadelphia, January 21st, 1813, thus writes of the same work: "When you see your friend, Mr. Ely, please to tell him I have read his Journal with pleasure and instruction; and that I shall avail myself of some of his facts, should a second edition be called for, of my late publication upon 'The Diseases of the Mind."" From several Clergymen. "We have read, with peculiar gratification, Ely's First Journal, which breathes a spirit of ardent piety, and zeal for the salvation of sinners; and exhibits a picture, warm from life, of the consolatory influence of the religion of Jesus. Ely's Second Journal, which is now offered to the public, as a continuation of the First, we are persuaded will have the same excellent tendency. Both of these little volumes we most cordially recommend to the serious perusal of all christian people, and wish them a most extensive circulation, as calculated to promote the best interests of the church. SAMUEL B. WYLIE, D. D. Pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Philada. JAMES R. WILSON, D. D. Professor of the Learned Languages. Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church. HENRY HOLCOMBE, D. D. Pastor of the First Baptist Church. GEORGE C. POTTS, A. M. Pastor of the 4th Presbyterian Church, Philada. Philadelphia, Oct. 28, 1815," "We have read with pleasure and edification the First Journal of the Rev. Mr. Ely, and are happy to learn that a Second is about appearing. Publications calculated to awaken christian sympathy and benevolence, by unfolding the miseries of depraved and suffering humanity, and that have a tendency to exhibit the value of the gospel of Christ as a means of regenerating the heart, reforming the life, or soothing the bed of dissolution, cannot be too widely circulated. Mr. Ely has our best wishes for his success in all his meritorious and active endeavours to advance the interests of the Mediator's kingdom. WILLIAM STAUGHTON, D. D. Pastor of the Baptist Church in Sansom street, Philada. WILLIAM ROGERS, D. D. Late Professor in the University of Pennsylvania. October 27th, 1815." By several London Reviews. The Eclectic Review, of May 1814, in speaking of this work, says, “This volume contains some very important instruction to the profligate. They will meet with awful relations of the wretched end of vice, and of the aggravated misery which will fall upon those who follow no guide but inclination, and who obey no law but passion. "The book concludes with some highly interesting cases of insanity; but they are too long for insertion. The whole is written in a perfectly unaffected style; and many passages might be pointed out, of just and lively description, and some which are exquisitely pathetic." The Evangelical Magazine for July, 1813, remarks, "This |